Microsoft Planner - Task organization & collaboration

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Planner offers a straightforward, visual method for team organization. It simplifies the process for teams to create new plans, allocate and organize tasks, share files, discuss ongoing work via chat, and track progress updates.

Visual Work Organization

Each plan possesses its board where tasks are sorted into different buckets according to status or assignee. Modifying task status or assignments is as easy as dragging and dropping them between columns.

Enhanced Visibility

The My Tasks view presents a detailed list of all your tasks and their statuses across various plans. Team members collaborating on a plan are always aware of who is handling which tasks.

Seamless Collaboration

Designed for Office 365, Planner enables collaborative task completion, attachment of photos directly to tasks, and conversations regarding tasks without needing to switch between applications. With Planner, all team discussions and deliverables remain connected to the plan and aren't scattered across multiple apps.

Multi-Device Compatibility

Planner functions smoothly across all your devices, ensuring everyone stays synchronized. Carry on conversations and update tasks whether you're on-the-go or at your desk.

FAQ

What is the new Microsoft Planner?

The new Microsoft Planner is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, the power of Microsoft Project, and the intelligence of Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single, simple solution that spans from individual task management to enterprise and professional project management.

Why is Microsoft rolling out a new Planner?

We’ve heard from customers and analysts that tool proliferation across work management apps can cause rework, missed opportunities, and reduced productivity. From individual workers to team leaders to professional project managers, users are asking for a simple, consolidated work management solution that can flex and scale to meet their needs.

The new Microsoft Planner brings together our expertise in task management, collaborative work management, and enterprise work management into a single experience. Powerful, collaborative, scalable, and assisted by next-generation AI, the new Planner is designed to meet the needs of today’s workforce and scale with you into the future.

When will the new Microsoft Planner be available?

In April 2024, we rolled out the new Planner app in Microsoft Teams. With the initial rollout, there were no changes to the To Do, Planner, or Project for the web endpoints outside of Teams. The next set of endpoints that will receive the upgrade to the new Planner experience will be Planner for the web and Project for the web.

Is Project being retired?

No, Project is not being retired. 

Project for the web capabilities have become part of the new Planner.

Project desktop, Project Online, and Project Server will continue to be available and supported for both existing and new customers.